Adding simple permissions

[Ryan Gonzalez]

The CD one definitely isn't right, I've ripped several CDs via Flatpak'd
RubyRipper and fre:ax just fine... For the record, the issue tracking
CD/DVD support without needing device=all is tracked by:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/12

Are you able to run any CLI commands to examine the drive from your host
system? IIRC some distros require root to read from CD drives.

Also I mixed up your comments, sending emails should also definitely work.
Do you have a default email client configured? If you run `flatpak
--command=bash org.libreoffice.Libreoffice`, then run `xdg-email
some at email.com` from inside that shell, does it work? Do you see any errors?


On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 9:21 PM Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-08-25 at 21:14 -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> > You can already do this, check out 'flatpak override'.
> >
> > I think the LibreOffice is a known-ish oddity, since the portals
> > should allow printing IIRC?
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 4:13 PM Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net>
> > wrote:
> > > As much as I like Flatpak, the ability to make simple changes to
> > > the
> > > programs's permissions is severely lacking. I've already had issues
> > > with Okular (refuses to see my printer) and LibreOffice (can't send
> > > a
> > > file via email). Now I've tried RhythmBox, which refuses to see any
> > > audio CDs (using a Blu-ray player). While I'm perfectly fine with
> > > Flatpak's sandboxing features (one of the reasons I really like its
> > > concept), I just don't understand why these keep cropping up.
> > >
>
> flatpak override doesn't work in the aforementioned situations. The
> closest I got with RhythmBox was using --filesystem=host; it saw the
> audio CD, but still wouldn't let me access it (--device=all was
> similarly useless). With Okular, I tried giving away every permission I
> could find, but nothing worked so I gave up. Again, this should not be
> this difficult. CDs/DVDs/Printers are all standard devices and should
> have a reasonably simple way to allow them through the sandbox.
>
>
>
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